Offtopic rant, but it's amazing to me how few westerners understand that good charity for Africa consists of building infrastructure and providing practical education ("how to operate factory equipment", "how to manage a warehouse", "how to run a modern farm"), rather than just handing out bags of rice and other gibs. Yeah, they do need food and clothes, but just handing out gibs doesn't solve the underlying issue; that the poor parts of Africa are a nightmare for logistics that prohibits not just industrialisation, but also most aspects of modern civic society. How are you supposed to build an economy when towns are connected to each other only by mud roads so rutted that even military lorries get bogged and need to be winched out? On the other hand if you provide paved roads, railroads, and harbours, people will be able to build factories and produce things for export, which produces money they can use to buy some of the export products for themselves. As it is large swaths of highly fertile farmland are devoted to growing cash crops, because all the gibs means there's no internal market (and little demand) for food crops, even while starvation is rampant. Why should a village go to all the work clearing land for a new farm, when the domestic market for food crops is tiny, and there is no viable way to export large volumes? Why should a villager work hard in the t-shirt factory to earn money to buy bread, if he can just stay at home until the westerners give him a sack of rice?
Western charity is designed to make people feel good about themselves, while the Chinese charity is designed to uplift countries into viable trading partners. Yeah, the Chinese infrastructure is expensive, but once it's finished and put to use, that expense will be quickly paid off. Africa is obscenely fertile and resource rich, the conditions are ripe to repeat the Chinese Miracle. I've met many African immigrants, they've all been enthusiastic and eager to work, and universally they've agreed with me that the best charity for their home countries are tractors and paved roads. It's lamentable that these people, who could no doubt have been driving forces behind industrialisation in their home countries, instead move to Europe and Asia to work menial jobs.